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Arcana entomologica, or, Illustrations of new, rare, and interesting insects (1841)

Author: Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893; Casey, Thos. L. (Thomas Lincoln), 1857-1925, former owner. DSI; Dodge, O. M., former owner. DSI; Goronovitsch, Nicolas Wassiliévitsch, former owner. DSI; Schaus, William, 1859- , former owner. DSI; Bradbury & Evans, printer
Volume: v. 1-2, c. 2
Subject: Entomology; Insects; Insects
Publisher: London : William Smith
Year: 1841
Possible copyright status: NOT_IN_COPYRIGHT
Language: English
Call number: 39088007406952
Digitizing sponsor: Smithsonian
Book contributor: Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Collection: biodiversity; smithsonian; americana
Notes: Cullman Library (rare book)
Scanfactors: 5

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Description

Issued in parts between 1841 and 1845; dates of issue appear on most plates

"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers ..."--Verso of t.p

There are two different plates each numbered 68; the final numbered plate is 95 (called "Plate XCVI" in text)

Includes bibliographical references

Nissen, C. Zoologische Buchillustration

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SCNHRB has three copies; c. 1 and c. 2 each have v. 1 and v. 2 bound together in one volume; c. 3 is bound in two volumes. The illustrations are hand-colored in c. 1 and c. 3, and uncolored in c. 2

SCNHRB c. 1 (39088007406721, for 2 v. in 1) has inscriptions from former owners on half-title: "Carolina" from Oliver, Sept. 19, 1901; O.M. Dodge. With stamp on verso of t.p.: Smithsonian Institution National Museum, June 19, 1946; accession no. 332207

SCNHRB c. 1 has two reprinted articles in pocket inside front cover: J. Chester Bradley, "Dates of publication of Westwood's Arcana entomologica", Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 88, no. 10 (Apr. 23, 1975), p. 91-94; Richard Curle, "Arcana entomologica", Journal of the Society for the Bibliography of Natural History, vol. 2, pt. 5 (Sept. 1949), p. 167-168

SCNHRB c. 1 has a later red buckram library binding with gilt-lettered spine

SCNHRB c. 2 (39088007406952, for 2 v. in 1) has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution. The Thomas Lincoln Casey Library, 1925. With probable accession no. on final p. of v. 2: 66525. There is a faint, illegible remnant of an erased ms. ink ownership inscription on the t.p

SCNHRB c. 2 has an old half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and a gilt-tooled spine. Housed in a later black buckram portfolio

SCNHRB c. 3 (v. 1, 39088007406713; v. 2, 39088007407414) has bookplate: Collection of William Schaus, presented to the National Museum, MCMV

SCNHRB c. 3 has the autograph of a former owner on front free endpaper: N. Goronovitsch

SCNHRB c. 3 has an old gilt-tooled half-leather binding with marbled paper boards and marbled endpapers

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